Robin Hood Inn (Overseal)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
The Robin Hood Inn.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
The village of Overseal, presently one of the southernmost settlements in Derbyshire, belonged to Leicestershire until 1897.[1] I am not aware when the Robin Hood in Overseal was established, but it is listed in trade directories at least as early as 1842 (and again in 1846, 1850, 1863 and 1877).[2] In 1853 it was noted that its sign read:
Robin Hood is
Dead and gone:
Pray call, and drink
With Little John.[3]
Sources
- Cox, Barrie; Watts, Victor, introd.; Coates, Richard, gen. ed.; Cavill, Paul, production ed. The Place-Names of Leicestershire (English Place-Name Society, vols. LXXV, LXXVIII, LXXXI, LXXXIV, LXXXVIII, XC-XCI) (Nottingham, 1998-2016), pt. VII, p. 283; and see pt. VII, pp. xxv, xxvi, for sources
- Kersley, T.H. 'Poetical Tavern Signs', Notes & Queries, Series 1, vol. VIII (1853), p. 627.
Background
Notes
- ↑ Wikipedia: Overseal.
- ↑ Cox, Barrie; Watts, Victor, introd.; Coates, Richard, gen. ed.; Cavill, Paul, production ed. The Place-Names of Leicestershire (English Place-Name Society, vols. LXXV, LXXVIII, LXXXI, LXXXIV, LXXXVIII, XC-XCI) (Nottingham, 1998-2016), pt. VII, p. 283; and see pt. VII, pp. xxv, xxvi, for sources.
- ↑ Kersley, T.H. 'Poetical Tavern Signs', Notes & Queries, Series 1, vol. VIII (1853), p. 627.